St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-29

record during the year lSS1-open to the
civilized wcr!d-the lists could be closed
now and the money paid over to Editor
It!RCE and the paper iii which his de-
r'rtment appears. These three choice
samples of the preymicator's art are:
/ he ALI d snubbing of Coy. CHURCH
lay President CLEvELAND; the story
aDOug tae diSaffection of Nj. IL. DAY. and
the silly, idiOtic tale that the president
was considering the ACCESSIBILITY of re-
moving Gov. CHURCH. If ANANIAs
is out o. a job in Hades.- he can obtain
permanent situation by coming back to
earth and appearing at the Pioneer
Press Office, st. Paul.
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Editor PIERCE says: But it locks as if
the whole Ia k of the territorial officers
was mere blow and buncombe, for not
d y have they failed to follow up the
" ;ntfre given them by the decision
o. tii'- supreme court" Will he cite the
accession Of the supreme court referred
TO? Is it to be wondered at that matters
concerning taxation were. neglected
Wien the chief officer of the territory
does not to this day know upon what
gre unds railroad property is assessed?
lie refers to decision of the supreme
court. There has been no decision of
tie supreme court. 1t was an act of.
congress, passed nearly year before
PIERCE went out of Office: but he is eX-.
cuScd for not knowing of it, as he was
engaged in newspaper. work.
Col. ALEX HUGHES, of Bismarck, eX-
attorney general of Dakota, has made
very funny break, which was not to be
suspected of him. During his term of
office he filed a written opinion in re-
gard to the taxation of railroad lands
lot occupied for railroad purposes. He
took the ground that the territory
had this right. Auditor WARD, when
he issued his famous order about the
taxation of these lands, based it, to
large extent, on this very opin-
ion of HUGHES'. Since HUGHES filed
this opinion he has become an attorney
for the Northern Pacific railroad, and in
recent interview reverses his decision,
so to speak, and asserts that the lands
are not taxable. Mr.. HUGHES should
never have put his opinion in black and
white. He should have had private
talk with the governor, and thus left no
trail.
1t begins to look as if Dodger PIERCE
would be more appropriate than Editor
PIERCE. He continues to sQuirm and
cover i'll the corner into which he has
haay, H,ix,ay, 10 hoe foiI
the questions printed in the GLOBE two
weeks ago. They are printed again in
this issue for his benefit. Let every
reader of the GLOBE in Dakota study
them and render a verdict if the one to
whom they are addressed pays no atten-
ton to them, as he has been doing.
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The identity of Loo1er-In seems to
bother good many men. Now, what
if the GLOBE would unravel the mys-
terry and say it was eX-Gov. ORDwAY?
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The fate of Judge FRANCIS is sealed.
but the fall of the guillotine is DELAYED
for some ineXplicable reason. Still
there is not the slightest chance that
his life will be saved, despite Editor
JEwElI.'s blalf of 500 to $50 that he
will serve out his term.
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Editor PIERCE announces that he has
returned. This ends the reign of the
Substitute, who stuck pretty closely to
decent argument: INDUCED in no Pc
culiar, Gnderhand tactics, and wrote no
specials. dating them at various and
snn'I:y places. to suit his purposes.
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Maj. RAERETT's ability and vim is
pushing the Aberdeen Republican to
The front. Ii is now issued as daily.
Wien the major enacts one of the char
acters IL the beautiful melodrama, 1.-THE
Liou aud The Lamb Lie Down To-
gcthcr," his influence and prosperity
will increase and there will be a boom
all over Dakota.
TIE aSpcrsion given currency, that
Col. PLUMMER cannot reach the highest
round of Orat0rical scintillation on the
local option question without the aid of
the little brown jug that did such SER
vice i'll his BLAINE campaign down in
Maine, is discredited by all who have en-
joyed social fellowship with the rotund
end sonorous gentleman. There are
those who claim to have seen and smell
fragments of that jug, and they cannot'l
be convinced that it is still capable of
giving inspiration, except as a remi-
niscence. The colonel should have the
credit Of genuine reformation-at least